The Way We Live Now (Personal Work)

These are some of the images from my a couple of the 120 colour films that I shot for this assignment, I like some of them, they kind of work, but to make them better I’m going to follow the advice that Hamish gave me of focusing more on top of the item, and trying to get closer to it, so to improve the images I’ll use a tripod so every item is the same distance from the camera, and I’ll experiment around with the depth of field and focus of the image, I feel this will give the images some continuity, so over the week end I plan on shooting another 2 or 3 films on the beach, as long as the weather is good.

Gallery Responce (Bristol) (Visual Studies)

 For my gallery response I’m basing mine on the Taylor Wessing portrait prize, I pick this one because it’s one of my favorites, and some of the work in there is really amazing and inspiring. I wasn’t sure which image to go with to try and base my response on, so I just went with doing a portrait seen as I liked a lot of the work in there.

I’ve done a self-portrait for it, but using a wide angle lens to get my surroundings in the image as well, because I feel my surroundings reflect who I am and what I do, so for example I’m into computer’s hence the screens, I’m reading, there’s papers on the floor which are visible behind my leg, you can also make out some other small details, ideally I would have liked to have an even wider lens so  I could get more of my room it to include other items which will reflect who I am.

On the lighting side I made it quite dark using just the lamp for lighting. Lighting up part of my face and some of the objects around me, the reason I did this is because I’m not to comfortable taking images of myself or having them taken of me, so the low light is a way around that but also a representation of it because it shows that I’m kind of hiding. I also feel that it focuses the image a bit more, making it so that the image isn’t to cluttered because of everything being exposed and visible.

Rush (The film) (Independent Research)

The film rush has an interesting an engaging story line based on the original events of the F1 series, and the two main drivers of it, but I’m more interested in the composition and lighting of the film, there are some really nice and interesting shots using some good composition and angles and lighting, there are also some really good scenes with the rain coming down in them, that have a very atmospheric and striking look to them, creating a feeling to fit the narrative of the story line.

2013 Turner Prize (Independent Research)

Just a quick blog post today, I found an interesting article in the Guardian a couple of days ago about the 2013 turner prize, it talks about the artists and the opinions of the reviewer and some of the narratives and concepts that the art is representing, some of it is a bit strange to say the least for example the statue of the man that blinks an pees into the bucket, and then that artist invites people to come a draw it, but never the less it’s still an interesting read, and a peek into some more contemporary art.